How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing 1890-1960 - Rilegato

Glotzer, Paige

 
9780231179980: How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing 1890-1960
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ISBN 10: 0231179987 ISBN 13: 9780231179980
Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2020

Sinossi

The story of the rise of the segregated suburb often begins during the New Deal and the Second World War, when sweeping federal policies hollowed out cities, pushed rapid suburbanization, and created a white homeowner class intent on defending racial barriers. Paige Glotzer offers a new understanding of the deeper roots of suburban segregation. The mid-twentieth-century policies that favored exclusionary housing were not simply the inevitable result of popular and elite prejudice, she reveals, but the culmination of a long-term effort by developers to use racism to structure suburban real estate markets.

Glotzer charts how the real estate industry shaped residential segregation, from the emergence of large-scale suburban development in the 1890s to the postwar housing boom. Focusing on the Roland Park Company as it developed Baltimore’s wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods, she follows the money that financed early segregated suburbs, including the role of transnational capital, mostly British, in the U.S. housing market. She also scrutinizes the business practices of real estate developers, from vetting homebuyers to negotiating with municipal governments for services. She examines how they sold the idea of the suburbs to consumers and analyzes their influence in shaping local and federal housing policies. Glotzer then details how Baltimore’s experience informed the creation of a national real estate industry with professional organizations that lobbied for planned segregated suburbs. How the Suburbs Were Segregated sheds new light on the power of real estate developers in shaping the origins and mechanisms of a housing market in which racial exclusion and profit are still inextricably intertwined.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Paige Glotzer is assistant professor and John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Chair in the History of American Politics, Institutions, and Political Economy at the University of Wisconsin Madison.

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Editore
Columbia Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0231179987
ISBN 13 
9780231179980
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
304
Contatto del produttore
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9780231179997: How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing 1890-1960

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ISBN 10:  0231179995 ISBN 13:  9780231179997
Casa editrice: Columbia Univ Pr, 2020
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